I Know How She Does It by Laura Vanderkam (Summary & Analysis): How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

by Summary Kings

In this summary, Laura Vanderkam shares the powerful insights she gathered from 1001 actual days in the lives of high-achieving women. It’s common knowledge that balancing work and family life can be a constant struggle, especially for women with children and a career. Laura Vanderkam, the acclaimed time management expert, comes at the “having it all” debate by asking a very practical question. If we all have the same 168 hours every week, how do the people who have it all use those hours? If you work 40 hours and sleep 56, that leaves 72 hours for everything else. Vanderkam explains how her subjects use those “everything else” hours; why we work less and have more free time than we think; why it’s a myth that successful women get too little sleep; and how women can have demanding jobs, spouses, and kids, and still enjoy a healthy amount of downtime.

This Summary of I Know How She Does It

45 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 19, 2015